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Study refers to the states of Kerala and West Bengal, India.
Author : P. Eashvaraiah
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Communist parties
ISBN : 9788171880164
Study refers to the states of Kerala and West Bengal, India.
Author : Raka Ray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742538436
Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines.
Author : Richard Sandbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139460919
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a global economic order that favours core industrial countries. Their findings derive from a comparative analysis of four exemplary cases: Kerala (India), Costa Rica, Mauritius and Chile (since 1990). Though unusual, the social and political conditions from which these developing-world social democracies arose are not unique; indeed, pragmatic and proactive social-democratic movements helped create these favourable conditions. The four exemplars have preserved or even improved their social achievements since neoliberalism emerged hegemonic in the 1980s. This demonstrates that certain social-democratic policies and practices - guided by a democratic developmental state - can enhance a national economy's global competitiveness.
Author : Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108695051
This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.
Author : Paul R. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1994-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521459709
A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the major political, cultural and economic changes in India during the past 45 years.
Author : Chittaprosad
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Famines
ISBN : 9789381217061
Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 1989-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521378765
In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing reform.
Author : Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9357082123
'A model work of historical scholarship'-Ramachandra Guha 'The most well-researched, comprehensive history of contemporary Assam ever written'-Partha Chatterjee The crucial battles of World War II fought in India's north-east-followed soon after by Independence and Partition-had a critical impact on the making of modern Assam. In the three decades following 1947, the state of Assam underwent massive political turmoil, geographical instability, and social and demographic upheaval, among others. Later, the truncated state suffered widespread unrest as various groups believed their cultural identity and political leverage were under threat. New social energies and political forces were unleashed and came to the fore. Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s. It offers an authoritative account that sets new standards in the writing of regional political history. Not to be missed by any one keen on Assam, India, Asia or world history in the twentieth century.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : Gedeon M. Mudacumura
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2004-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1482270986
Considering the current challenges to human progress, this reference book examines recent theories, policies, and sectoral priorities, as well as various social, economic, and administrative factors that impact worldwide modernization and development. The book emphasizes the fact that communities must evaluate continuously and adjust their program